Examples of fraudulent in a Sentence
Corrupt leaders were chosen in a fraudulent election.
fraudulent use of a credit card
the victim of a fraudulent scheme
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Henao's brother, Felipe, claimed in a civil complaint filed in May 2026 that Knezevich and his lawyers had systematically drained his sister of about $6 million in equity for over a year through fraudulent transactions.
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Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 13 June 2026
Roughly 9,000 fake websites and more than 1 million fraudulent URLs are allegedly connected to the group, as well as 55,000 spam texts flagged by Android users in just two weeks in May.
—Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 13 June 2026
Equally reckless, unfunded promises have been made to victims of decades-old child abuse, with few safeguards against fraudulent claims.
—George Liebmann, Baltimore Sun, 13 June 2026
Done well, an agent that never sleeps can catch a fraudulent transfer at two in the morning, or rescue a payment about to be rejected over a missing code, the kind of save that protects ordinary customers as much as the bank.
—Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
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Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 13 June 2026
Roughly 9,000 fake websites and more than 1 million fraudulent URLs are allegedly connected to the group, as well as 55,000 spam texts flagged by Android users in just two weeks in May.
—Will McCurdy, PC Magazine, 13 June 2026
Equally reckless, unfunded promises have been made to victims of decades-old child abuse, with few safeguards against fraudulent claims.
—George Liebmann, Baltimore Sun, 13 June 2026
Done well, an agent that never sleeps can catch a fraudulent transfer at two in the morning, or rescue a payment about to be rejected over a missing code, the kind of save that protects ordinary customers as much as the bank.
—Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
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“Fraudulent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fraudulent. Accessed 19 Jun. 2026.
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fraudulent
adjective
fraud·u·lent
ˈfrȯ-jə-lənt 
: based on or done by fraud
fraudulently
adverb
fraudulentness
noun
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